6.40 Prayer for the Day
RT REV ROBERT EAMES , Bishop Of Derry
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
They Told Us We're Too Young....
First time brides are becoming younger than ever, but only some of the results are predictable. More young couples are seeking divorce, but fewer brides are pregnant when they reach the altar. Some young people willingly risk conception confident of an imminent wedding; others use conception to induce the partner into marriage. Brenda Kidman examines the trends, hopes and fears of young people and their parents, and explores the consequences of this changing social pattern. Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
Presented by PIERS BURTON-PAGE Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 84; Christian, seek not yet repose (BBC HB 340); Canticle 4; Psalm 51, w 1-13 (AV); Forty days and forty nights (BBC HB 341)
Not According To Schedule by DOROTHY BROWN
Read by Norma Ronald
High Spirits and Low Cunning
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: actress Jean Anderson
(' Mother ' of The Brothers)
2.0-2.2 News
JONATHAN HEWAT - Around the World in a Minibus -2: the jungle of Nigeria.
1AlltheexcitementoftheBig Top! ': but what about the animals in circuses? Are they well looked after? Are they necessary? Are they sufficiently protected legally? PAUL BARNES investigates.
Life Among the Savages (7)
Story: Little Grey Goose by ANNIE-MARIE EDWARDS
Little Trains That Pass by MICHAEL JUDGE
MARTIN: You're the right man, all right. The man I've watched every morning for the past few months. The man who seduced my wife ...
HUGH: But I've never met your wife!
MARTIN: Oh I'm willing to grant you that.
Produced and directed by ROBERT COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland
Leslie A. Hutchinson, the singer and pianist, rose to fame as a cabaret entertainer during the 1930s. He had intended to make a career in law but he soon turned to music and with encouragement from Cole Porter, he developed his skill at the piano. It was C.B. Cochran, some years later, who was responsible for revealing the 'milk-chocolate' voice.
Derek Parker tells the story of Hutch with the help of some of the many records including 'These Foolish Things' and 'A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.'
Raffles (3)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
Britain is about to become self-sufficient in Energy. But how long will the ' fat years ' last? And how should we prepare for the ' lean years ' that will follow when the oil and gas in the North Sea run out? Ian Smart, Director of Studies at Chatham House, explores the options with Sir Derek Ezra , Chairman of the National Coal Board, Sir John Hill , Chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority, Peter King of the School of Fuel Management, Dr Walter Marshall , Chief Scientist at the Department of Energy, Peter Odell of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Walter Patterson of Friends of the Earth, Francis Tombs , Chairman designate of the Electricity Council, and Harry Warman of the British National Oil Corporation. Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Benedict Spinoza , the Dutch philosopher who died in 1677, was reviled in his own lifetime as a dangerous, atheistical writer. In this programme, Maurice Cranston shows how Spinoza, who made his modest living as a lens grinder, was in fact a deeply spiritual thinker. and tells the story of this important figure of the European enlightenment.
Produced and directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
BBC Northern Ireland
The first of two programmes. ' Towards the end of the 40s I was visiting a friend in Wales whose son couldn't get to sleep. I started telling the little boy stories and the books grew out of that.'
Beverley Nichols , famous for his books about gardens and cats, talks to Jeanlnc McMullen about his trilogy of books for children. Reader EVA HADDON
Presenter Paul Vaughan
John Tusa reporting
Cranford (13)
preceded by Weather
